u/niteskunk

Just got my (free!) replacement after the lip around the camera button broke. I almost hate to swap it, as I've really babied my old case and it's developed a really beautiful patina.

Huge fan of Bullstrap. They made having a case stop feeling like just a functional necessity. Their cases add so much to both the aesthetic and experience of the phone. It's also nuts to me that they offer lifetime replacements for such a high-quality product!

I just caught iZotope (so Native Instruments, I guess) doing some real gross dark pattern shit.

So, I tend to keep analytics/data collection off for as many plug-ins as possible. After recently updating my iZotope plug-ins, I noticed I was getting re-prompted with the "Help us improve your experience" dialog when loading projects, multiple times per week. At first I thought it was a bug, like maybe some weird state got saved with a project.

Then I noticed it was doing it in fresh projects too.

It turns out that when you hit "don't share", it writes a timestamp to the registry, and if it's been more than ~5 days since the last nag, it will re-prompt you to opt-in. It's completely deliberate.

A solution seems to be to set the value of HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\iZotope LastChangedOptInDaysSinceEpoch to 65535.

If you save this as fix.reg and run it, it will patch it:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\iZotope]
"EnableAnalytics"=dword:00000000
"LastChangedOptInDaysSinceEpoch"=dword:0000ffff

Figured I'd share this for anyone else who's been annoyed by this.